Show UTAH J By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS J t J The legislature of at 1854 and anti 1855 enacted laws prodding providing providing pro pro- viding for the construction a of canals between Utah lake Big Cottonwood river and Great Salt lake These were the first irrigation projects of magnitude con con- The first was to commence above the rapids of the Jordan where a dam was WM to be built bum and thence follow the base of or the mountains on the east of at Great Salt lake valley to the city with a depth sufficient for boats drawing two and a half halt feet of water The Cottonwood canal was to divert half of the waters of the river and conduct them to Salt Lake S a S SUp Up to 1865 there had been constructed Irrigation Irrigation irrigation gation canals in the territory the cost of or which in including including in- in eluding dams was wa with a a. total length of ot 1043 miles and irrigating acres Water from Utah lake was as to be brought into Salt Lake county where there was not third one-third of the Ule water needed for fOl irrigation by the Cottonwood plant The enterprise was wal termed the Deseret Irrigation and Navigation company The cost of construction of this plant which was to be 32 miles long 20 feet broad at the bottom 3 feet dc deep p and capable of irrigating acres was given at t The Tile governor refused to grant a P. franchise The company was incorporated In n 1867 S S S There are two irrigation projects in Utah built bunt by bythe bythe the he United States reclamation service the largest one cne being the Strawberry valley project which covers and andis ands is s intended to lITigate Irrigate acres The wa water r is taken fr from m the Strawberry and Spanish Fork rivers The impounding pounding dam darn is feet long 72 feet high and forms a reservoir which covers an area of acres The reservoir Is at an elevation of feet Water Waters is s brought to lands to be Irrigated through the Strawberry Strawberry Straw- Straw berry erry tunnel four miles mUes lon long and lined with concrete It empties in the Diamond fork whence the water is delivered to lands on both sides of at the Spanish Fork river The project is also used to supply light and power for several small towns The second government o enterprise is is the Echo project in Echo canyon principally for use on lands near Morgan and south to Kaysville and also on lands under the Provo river system The water is entirely supplemental to the Weber river and covers acres On the Provo river it covers acres It ItIs ItIs Itis is the first fint unit in the Great Salt lake basin project Its cost when completed will be S S S Another project now under way is the second unit in the Great Salt lake basin the Hyrum project When completed it will cost about a of or which an initial unit cost amounting to has bas been appropriated by congress |